When the season started, not much was expected from the young Florida Marlins.
In fact, many experts picked the Marlins to be dead last in the division. Boy were those experts wrong.
They have played extremely well this year and were in the thick of being in first place for most of the season. The Marlins have dropped off a bit and are now four games over .500, but considering where the Marlins were supposed to be, to the experts, it has been a great season for them.
Even something more surprising, is the fact that the Marlins became the first team, yes that's right the first team in MLB history, to have every infielder hit 25 or more home runs in a season.
You have Mike Jacobs with 32, Dan Uggla with 30, Hanley Ramirez 29, and Jorge Cantu with 25.
With still some time left in the season, the infielders could add to history if Cantu hits five more and Ramirez hits one more, the Marlins could be the first team with all four infielders hitting 30 or more home runs.
According to Yahoo!, there were 12,000 plus fans in attendance, and it's a sad fact that there was probably a significantly less amount.
While ESPN was waiting to see what happened in the rain delay of Rays vs. Yankees, it went to the Nationals vs. Marlins game. It was pathetically silent there and with such a young ball club it makes you wonder what is going to happen to the Marlins?
Is there any hope for people to come see the game? Would a new stadium fix the problem of no one coming out to see the Marlins? That, I do not know, but I do know this, Marlins fans had a chance to see history this season and they missed the opportunity because they would rather wait for a new stadium instead of supporting their team!
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Michael Cline 10 months ago
It's sad that Florida isn't the only team with attendance woes. I don't think it's a stadium problem, it's a baseball problem. What needs to happen to bring the fans back?
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Steven Resnick 10 months ago
I know as an Oakland A's fan that a lot of people don't like going to night games at the Coliseum because of the wind. It's sad to use weather as an excuse for not going and supporting your team.
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David Bressler 9 months ago
Great article. I'm a big time Marlin fan and if it makes you feel any better, I'm one of the 600 people that go to the games.
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Steven Resnick 9 months ago
Good. I wish we had a baseball team in Portland of course the closest is the Mariners. Being an A's fan that's just not good. Portland would be a brand new team and it would be interesting to see how they would do with a expansion team in a wonderful city like Portland. They have plenty of space in Hillsboro to build a great stadium to play in it would have to be a retractable roof dome stadium. The Marlins are going to be an exciting team if they actually are able to keep the studs like Andrew Miller once he becomes consistent, Hanley Ramirez, Jorge Cantu, Dan Uggla, Josh Willingham if he can stay healthy, etc...Marlins could be dangerous for years to come and the fans should go out and see this young team and support them
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